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Lincoln and Emancipation DBQ Documents Prepared by Dan McNamara, New Rochelle High School, Mamaroneck, NY Posted online at Emancipation Digital Classroom, House Divided Project, 2012, http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/emancipation/2012/07/15/emancipationdbq/

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Lincoln and Emancipation DBQDocuments

Prepared by Dan McNamara, 

New Rochelle High School, Mamaroneck, NY

Posted online at Emancipation Digital Classroom, House Divided Project, 2012,

http://housedivided.dickinson.edu/sites/emancipation/2012/07/15/emancipation‐dbq/

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Source: Free at Last: A Documentary History of Slavery, Freedom and the Civil War edited by Ira Berlin et al.,The New Press, 1992

http://www.learner.org/workshops/primarysources/emancipation/docs/hjohnson.html

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Lincoln and Emancipation

A Study in Points of View

An illustrated version of the Emancipation Proclamation. Executed and published by F.S. Butler, 

1864. Printed by L. Nagel. Source URL: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi‐

bin/ampage?collId=lprbscsm&fileName=scsm0904/lprbscsmscsm0904.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/scsmbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(scsm000904)) 

Archives.gov printer friendly text of the Emancipation Proclamation: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/print_friendly.html?page=transcript_content.html&title=Emancipation_Proclamation

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Document #1

Francis Bicknell Carpenter’s First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before Lincoln’s Cabinet, 1864

Source URL:  http://senate.gov/artandhistory/art/common/image/Painting_33_00005.htm

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The Emancipation Proclamation

Source URL: http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.h

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A Proclamation.

Whereas, on the twenty‐second day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty‐two, a proclamation was issued by the President of the United States, containing, among other things, the following, to wit:

"That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty‐three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons, and will do no act or acts to repress such persons, or any of them, in any efforts they may make for their actual freedom.

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Document #3   Thomas Nast’s amended version of “Emancipation,” 1865. Source:   http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/36409 Zoomifiable version: http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/36408

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Source: http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/history/carnegie/lincoln/writingdraw.html

Document #4 “Lincoln Writing the Emancipation Proclamation,”by V. Blada, pseudonym for Baltimore dentist, Adalbert Volck. (1864)

Left:HaitianSlave rebellion depicting the mass slaughter of whites.

Below: Sarcastic view of John Brown entitled “St. Osawotomie.”

< US Constitution

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Adalbert Volck’s Cartoon                 Thomas Nast’s Cartoon

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Assignment: In collaboration with one other student in class, create a detailed venn diagram in which you compare and contrast Nast’s and Volck’s political cartoons. Your overall task is to determine the similarities and differences between the two points of view reflected in the respective cartoons. Please note the details of each cartoon. These details were quite deliberate and convey meaning.  Your partner and you will present your venn diagram to the class.

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O, Columbia! the gem of the ocean,The home of the brave and the free,The shrine of each patriot's devotion,A world offers homage to thee.Thy mandates make heroes assembleWhen Liberty's form stands in view;Thy banners make tyranny tremble

When borne by the Red, White and Blue! When borne by the Red, White and Blue!When borne by the Red, White and Blue!Thy banners make tyranny trembleWhen borne by the Red, White and Blue!

The wine cup, the wine cup bring hither,And fill you it true to the brim! May the wreaths they have won never wither, Nor the star of their glory grow dim! May the service united ne'er sever,But they to their colors prove true! The Army and Navy forever, Three cheers for the red, white and blue, Three cheers for the red, white and blue, Three cheers for the red, white and blue, The Army and Navy forever, Three cheers for the red, white and blue.

Source: http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/columbiagem.htmT. Becket, D. Shaw; © 1999 AmeriMusic, Inc.

“Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean”Document #5>

Color SergeantGeorge A. SimpsonKilled at Antietam125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

1st Brigade1st Division12th Corps

http://www.nps.gov/anti//images/20060906152002.jpg

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Document #6 This young boy was considered a “contraband” of war by the Union. Having escaped slavery, he was allowed to work as a drummer for the Union Army.

U.S. Army Military History Institute: http://www.carlisle.army.mil/ahec/USAMHI/default.cfm

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Document #7  Document #8

“Excellent Sir My good friend says I must write to you and she will send it My son went in the 54th regiment. I am a colored woman and my son was strong and able as any to fight for his country and the colored people have as much to fight for as any. My father was a Slave and escaped from Louisiana before I was born morn forty years agone I have but poor edication but I never went to schol, but I know just as well as any what is right between man and man.”‐‐Hannah Johnson, July 31, 1863 letter to President Lincoln

Source URL: http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/hjohns

Men of Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln, District of Columbia, circa 1864

Source URL: http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/32501

n.htm

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Document #9

“Dear parents with plesure i take up my pen to rite a few lines to you to let you now that i am well at presant and hope that thes few lines may find you all in the same state of helth….

Dear friends this ware is an auffel thing fighting for ngroes now is a bad thing but i hope that this ware will be over till spring Old abe done a bad thing wenhe freed all the slaves now the rebels is fghting for ther rites dear friend i wish that this ware was over and i was at home with you all again i think that i will not go a soldgerning eny more for i am tiard of ware now i hope to get through this ware safe i am happy and send my love to you all….”

John Taylor Cuddy: Courtesy of the House Divided Project.

John T. Cuddy was a Union soldier from Carlisle, Pa. He was in the 36th

Regiment of the 7th Pennsylvania Volunteer Corps. He wrote the letter excerpted above to family home in Carlisle. It is dated January 16, 1863.URL Source: http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/32755

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Document #10

“The Proclamation of Freedom”New York World editorial, January 3, 1863

“….Mr. LINCOLN’S paper proclamation is of no more force than the imprescriptable title to freedom born with every human being who has courage and vigor of character to assert it. There has never been a time when the negroes had so little to hope from an insurrection as at present. The whole white population of the South is in arms….Whither could they flee? If, assembling in large bodies, they should offer a show of violence, what chance have they, unarmed, against the abundance of improved artillery and firearms in the hands of the superior race….”

URL Source: http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1488

Enslaved African Americans on Smith’s Plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.Library of Congress URL Source:  http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/ppmsc/00000/00057r.jpg?__utma=37760702.87456388.1314824041.1314824041.1314824041.1&__utmb=37760702.12.9.1314824639861&__utmc=37760702&__utmx=‐&__utmz=37760702.1314824041.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none)&__utmv=‐&__utmk=237466562

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Document #11 “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln,” by Frederick Douglass

Source URL: http://www.TeachingAmericanHistory.org/library/index.asp?documentprint=39

“He was preeminently the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men. He was ready and willing at any time during the first years of his administration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the rights of humanity in the colored people to promote the welfare of the white people of this country. In all his education and feeling he was an American of the Americans. He came into the Presidential chair upon one principle alone, namely, opposition to the extension of slavery.”‐‐Frederick Douglass, “Oration in Memory of Abraham Lincoln,” April 14, 1876

Photo source URL: http://frederickdouglassamerican.blogspot.com/2009/04/douglass‐on‐abraham‐lincoln‐in‐1876.html

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Excerpt A. He was preeminently the white man’s President, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men. He was ready and willing at any time during the first years of his administration to deny, postpone, and sacrifice the rights of humanity in the colored people to promote the welfare of the white people of this country. In all his education and feeling he was an American of the Americans. He came into the Presidential chair upon one principle alone, namely, opposition to the extension of slavery. His arguments in favor of this policy had their motive and mainspring in his patriotic devotion to his own race.

Excerpt B. Can any colored man, or any white man friendly to the freedom of all men, ever forget the night which followed the first day of January, 1863, when the world was to see if Abraham Lincoln would prove to be as good as his word? I shall never forget that memorable night, when in a distant city I waited and watched at a public meeting, with three thousand others not less anxious than myself, for the word of deliverance which we have heard read today. Nor shall I ever forget the outburst of joy and thanksgiving that rent the air when the lightning brought to us the emancipation proclamation. In that happy hour we all forgot delay…

http://www.wordle.net/createAlternate Assignment 1. Roll Play: Rehearse each of the excerpts above. Imagine that you are Frederick Douglass. How would you have read each of these excerpts? Make your “orations” to the class.Alternate Assignment 2. Draw: Create a separate political cartoon of Lincoln based on each of these excerpts. Present your political cartoons to the class.

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Freedmen’s Monument in Memory of Abraham Lincoln,Lincoln Park,Washington, D.C.

Photo URL:http://picturinghistory.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1045